Garment-hanger.



" GARMENT HANGER.

APBLIGATION TILED JUNE 15, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

' Wilgssz; ;7 flarrz'emrzsim f I by W :Allmrncys No. 736,969. Patented August 25, 1903.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARRIE F. HURST, OF ORESTON, IOWVA, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALF TO EMMA WHITLATGH, OF ORESTON, IOWA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 736,969, dated August 25, 1903.

Application filed June 15, 1903. Serial No, 161,5 80- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: The wire employed may be tinned, galvan- Be it known that l, CARRIE F. HURST, a citiized, plated, japanned, or otherwise protected zen of the United States, residing at Oreston, or ornamented, as required. i in the county of Union and State of Iowa, have The relatively stiff or rigid brace member 40 5 invented a new and useful Garment-Hanger, by its peculiar construction is an important of which the following is a specification. feature of the invention and adds materially This invention relates to devices for susto the efficiency and value of the invention pending garments, more particularly ladies by effectually obviating all danger of collapse skirts, and has for its object to simplify and or displacement of the parts. 45 improve devices of this character; and the in- Having thus fully described my invention,

vention consists in certain novel features of what I claim is construction, as hereinafter shown and de- 1. A garment-hanger comprising an upper scribed, and specified in .the claims. member having a central suspension-loop and In the drawings illustrative of the invendepending ends terminating in upwardlyo tion, in which corresponding parts are deturned pointed hooks, and a transverse supnoted by like designating characters, Figure porting-bar connecting said depending ends 1 is a perspective View of the device applied. adjacent to said hooks, substantially as de- Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are enlarged sectional described. tails. 2. A garment-hanger comprising a Wire 55 The improved'deyice'consists of a supportframe having a central loop and with depending-frame, preferably of asingle piece of wire ing ends spaced apart and terminating in formed with an upper portionlO, provided pointed upturned garment-piercing hooks, with a central suspension-loop 11 and dependand a brace member formed of a flat tubular ing ends 12 13, spaced apart and terminating sheet-metal strip connecting said depending 6o inupwardly-turned pointed hooks 1415. The ends near their hooks, substantially as deportions 12 13 are connected nearv the hooks scribed. 14L 15 by a brace member 16, formed of a flat In testimony that I claim the foregoing as tube of sheet metal with the ends attached my-own I have hereto affixed my signature in rigidlyby any suitable means to the side memthe presence of two Witnesses. 3o bers, as shown. By this means a very compact, strong, and yet light and cheaply-con- CARRIE F. HURST. structed device is formed which will efficiently support garments of various kinds, more par- Witnesses: ticularly ladies skirts, as indicated in Fig. 1, J. M. MOCORNAOK, and which may be of any suitable size or in J. W. MCDONALD.

graduated sizes. 

